2008 Château Saint-Pierre – France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien (5/13/2011) Brooding, balanced, elegant, with a distinct layer of minerals, subdued but ripe black fruits, dusty still biting tannins and serious acidity. This will need 10 [...]

2005 Château Lalande-Borie – France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien (5/18/2008) (right after opening) Red berries, fruit coulis on the somewhat lactic but enjoyable nose. Red fruit, black coffee, refreshing acidity and a fair amount of [...]

2003 Château Gruaud Larose – France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien (4/30/2006)Opened 19:30. First glass 20 hrs. Agreable nose with vanilla, black fruit and its syrup, black coffee, herbs and some alcohol. Fairly biting tannins on [...]

2003 Château Léoville Poyferré – France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien (3/5/2006)Spices, black coffee, and a hint of vanilla on the meaty, very aromatic nose. The palate is balanced, with almost sweet slightly dusty tannins, a [...]

2003 Château Gloria – France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien (1/18/2006)Open for business and not likely to close down soon. Agreable nose with leather, herbs, cigar box and black fruit. Balanced palate with refreshing acidity, lots [...]

2002 Château Gruaud Larose – France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien (2/12/2005)Brooding nose with leather, tobacco, jammy fruit, and violets. Very nice! On the palate surpringly accessible, with lots of jammy fruit, leather, black chocolate, sweetish, [...]

Château Leoville Barton Saint-Julien 2001. 12,5%. In de neus bloed, grafiet, kruiden en zwart fruit. In de mond massa’s materiaal: grafiet, koffie, kruiden, hint van peper, zwart geconfijt fruit. Het hout domineert nog. Heeft tijd [...]

Grand Vin du Léoville du Marquis de Las Cases St. Julien 2001. 13%. Complexe neus met zwart en geconfijt fruit, drop, leder, grafiet etc. Mondvullende wijn met zwart, confituurachtig fruit, woetige tannines, mooie zuren, grafiet. [...]

Ch. Branaire (Duluc-Ducru) GrCrCl St. Julien 2001. 13%. In de neus donkere chocolade, hints van leder en drop en zwart, geconfijt fruit. Krachtige en kruidige neus. Ook de mond is krachtig, met kruidige tannines, nog [...]

Aan de vooravond van {GlossSub(Hermitage proeverij Graz (24 flessen 1982-2001),”een grote Hermitage-proeverij”)} in het Oostenrijkse Graz (culturele hoofdstad van Europa in 2003) proefde ik samen met Ive Marx, Michiel Carpentier en Sigrid en Gerhard Praesent [...]